Towering over downtown Seattle at 967 feet sits the Columbia Center. It’s the tallest building in Seattle and the 2nd tallest on the West Coast. On August 7, 2015 (just a few days before China’s big economic dive) the building sold for $711 million to Gaw Capital Partners (an investment […] Read on →
Big shout-out to Gina Champion-Cain with her feature in the San Diego Union Tribune this morning! Gina has worked with us for a number of years, enhancing San Diego with her Luv Surf brand surf shops, fabulous pet friendly Mission Beach vacation rentals, and delicious food at her Patio restaurants. […] Read on →
Poor underwriting works more than 85% of the time, when the market is rising. In fact, it is so easy, even a caveman could do it. Mistakes are masked, ignorance forgiven and laziness is concealed….until the market changes and all these errors are not only exposed, but magnified. If that’s […] Read on →
Whoa… This is Bellevue? (My first thought after returning from four years of college in San Diego). I was expecting Rudy’s Barbershop, a 7-eleven, and maybe a KFC (probably good that’s gone since it was my hideout during cross country practice). But I was wrong. Wow. So for four years […] Read on →
Companies like Macy’s are struggling with whether or not to execute sale leasebacks with some of their assets. There is a lot of pressure to sell coming from investors (in order to boost share prices), arguing that Macy’s has no business in real estate and should focus on being a […] Read on →